Stillingstittel:
PhD scholarship within Multifunctional and Dexterous Grippers for Food Handling and Processing - ref.no 16/03823

Stillingsbeskrivelse:

Global challenges regarding energy and climate change, the environment, health, food safety, technology and renewable solutions, use and conservation of land and natural resources, and development of the bio-economy, requires greater effort. NMBU is well equipped to conduct further research in these fields. NMBU's expertise spans entire value chains and includes both basic and applied research.

 

On 1 January 2014, the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and the University of Life Sciences merged and became -NMBU, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. NMBU has 1700 employees and 5100 students, and is currently located on two campuses - Ås, about 30 km south of Oslo, and Adamstuen in Oslo. In 2019, the new research- and education-building for veterinary science will be completed and all of NMBU will then be located at Campus Ås.

 

Further information about NMBU is available on www.nmbu.no

Jobbnorge ID: 128512

The Department of Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) has a vacant 3-year full time PhD-position related to robotics.

 

The Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology at the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Technology, has approximately 130 employees about 1,100 students and about 60 PhD students. The Department offers qualifications as a secondary education teacher with a master's degree in natural sciences and degrees in engineering (five-year master's in technology) in the fields of: Environmental physics and renewable energy, Building and architecture, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, Machine, process and product development, Geomatics and Applied Mathematical Sciences. The workplace is in Ås.

 

 

Research project

The fellowship will be a part of the iProcess (www.iprocessproject) research driven project, led by SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, where NMBU is the partner responsible for education of a PhD candidate within the field of Multifunctional and dexterous grippers for food handling and processing. 

iProcess is a multidisciplinary research project seeking to develop novel concepts for flexible automation in Norwegian food processing industry. Norwegian food processing industry has a number of challenges that need to be solved in order to increase the profitability and raw material utilization. Many operations in the food processing industry are still manual based and labour intensive incurring high production costs and being inefficient regarding raw material use. To meet these challenges, a considerable research effort in iProcess will be dedicated to developing multifunctional gripper tools for handling and processing of food raw material, that are able to complete the operation of handling/processing while optimizing the yield.

 

Main tasks

The main task of the candidate is to design, build, and test, in the respective environment, grippers and tools for the raw material handling, for example,

• Develop novel gripper and tools for handling and processing operations (e.g. cutting of meat, fish).
• Develop suitable gripper tools for picking or harvesting operations in fruit/vegetable sector, such as gentle harvesting of cucumber.

The successful candidate is expected to enter a plan for the progress of the work towards a PhD degree during the first months of the appointment, with a view to completing a doctorate within the PhD scholarship period.

 

The workplace of the PhD candidate will be at the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology. The candidate will work in close cooperation with

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelige unive

Arbeidsgiver adresse: Universitetstunet 3 1430 ÅS

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Akershus

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Hvordan søke: Annet - se fritekst

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år